To Plaster or Dryline ???

[Ashthekid]

We have just started the long process of a refurbishment of my business and the building in which we work out of has been in desperate need of updating for about 25 years now. It's a small renovation job with only really 3 office rooms plus small kitchen and toilet. The whole place is single wall built and so there is no cavity. Most rooms are just artex and the main office is wallpapered.

My question is whether to simply skim all the rooms with plaster or go for what seems to be a popular method of dry-lining. What do you recommend. I'm thinking perhaps we should simply skim all the rooms that are artexed and the main office with wallpaper just dry-line it but does the wallpaper have to come off or can we uni-bond/seal it and then just work over the top of it. This wallpaper has been on since we moved in over 25 years ago and I'm worried removing it could unearth some nasty costly jobs - hopefully not worth doing if I am just going to dry-line over it.

Any thoughts welcome on this matter.

 

[joe-90]

Sounds good to me. I'd scrape as many lumps of the artex as possible then PVA and skim.

In the office itself where the wallpaper is I'd fix battens to the wall and then board over and skim.